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Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?

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• Subject: Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:03:39 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <r02000200-1028-DCDBAC05437F11D8B1470003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <r02000200-1028-DCDBAC05437F11D8B1470003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]> you write:
>Since I don't want to type the fragid
>repeatedly, I drop it in the base URI and type a lot of <a href="">.

Isn't the empty URI defined to refer to the containing document, regardless
of the base URI?  (RFC 2396 4.2, though I'm a bit unclear about the
end of that paragraph, and 5.2 step 2.)

-- Richard

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